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Andrew J. Thompson, farmer and stock raiser, of Webster County, Mo., was born in Marion County, Tenn., May 16, 1833, and is a son of Moses Thompson, who was born in Virginia, and went to Alabama when a young man, where he met and married Miss Mary Thompson, who was born and partially reared in North Carolina. After residing about fifteen years in Alabama they moved to Marion County, Tenn., where they reared their family, and died about 1863. Andrew J. is the youngest of their ten children, all of whom lived to become the heads of families. He and one brother, David, enlisted in the Confederate army, the former being with a Texas company, and died near Little Rock, Ark. Andrew J. enlisted in May, 1862, and served as a private until the close of the war, being the greater portion of the time on detail duty in various capacities. He was in the hospital for a short time, and received his discharge at Marshall, Tex., in the spring of 1865. He was married in Hill County, Tex., August 16, 1860, to Miss Hannah Norman, a widow lady, and daughter of John McBride, who was originally a Kentuckian. She was born in Lauderdale County, Ala., but was reared principally in Kentucky, and after her marriage to Mr. Thompson moved to Arkansas, from which State he enlisted in the Confederate army. After the war they located in White County, Ark., where they were engaged in farming up to 1877, but sold out in November of that year, and came to their present farm of eighty acres. The land is well located, and is furnished with plenty of pure limestone water, and improved with good buildings. Mr. Thompson is president of the County Agricultural Wheel, a Master Mason, and his wife is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church. They have no children of their own, but have reared two orphan children.